Rockville MD Divorce Law Blog

On behalf of The McKeon Law Firm posted in Child Support on Friday, July 8, 2016.

Maryland utilizes guidelines to calculate child support payments. These guidelines have been in effect since 1990. These guidelines have many years to mature and evolve. Therefore the courts often require the parties to comply with them.

This means that there is very little wiggle room to change or manipulate the numbers. The court will require the parties to collect and product income / financial information and run it through the formulas to determine fair payments. There is, of course, a lot of work to be done by you and your attorney but it is important to keep in mind that there are very few opportunities to deviate from the guidelines.

The famed singer/songwriter of 'American Pie' has finally said goodbye to his marriage. Don McLean finalized his divorce earlier this month after 30 years of marriage. The divorce comes after several years of high-profile mishaps including an arrest for domestic violence late last year.

On behalf of The McKeon Law Firm posted in Child Custody on Tuesday, June 21, 2016.

Currently, 48 states and the District of Columbia have enacted a version of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act. Only Massachusetts and Vermont have refused to follow this trend. The UCCJEA harmonizes the child custody rules among the various states to facilitate relocation and moving between the states. Before the UCCJEA, a parent's actions might comply in one state, but violate the rules of the state he or she was moving into. It was a complicated, legal nightmare that was solved when the states decided to harmonize their laws. This post will go over the UCCJEA and how it may help you obtain a move away order.

On behalf of The McKeon Law Firm posted in Property Division on Tuesday, June 14, 2016.

Couples are choosing to live together, without marriage, at increasing rates. Every year the number of unmarried cohabitating couples increases. If these couples break up, it can be messy and confusing. Unlike marriage, many cohabiting couples do not understand the legal rights and responsibilities of sharing property. This can lead to confusing break-ups and complex asset division issues.

On behalf of The McKeon Law Firm posted in Child Support on Wednesday, June 8, 2016.

You may think that when you change jobs you are automatically entitled to modify your child support order. This isn't necessarily true. There are a handful of reasons that justify modifying a support order. A job change could be one of these reasons, but it isn't in and of itself a justification. This post will go over those changes and how they might affect you.

Anyone can rattle off the "50 percent of all marriages end in divorce" statistic. But this commonly cited "fact" ignores many of the intricacies captured within marriage and divorce. A study by the Pew Research Center has found that, while the overall divorce rate is significantly higher than a century ago, it has been on a steady decline over the past 20 years. Specifically, the researchers found that the current rate of divorce, as of 2010, is 3.5 divorces per 1,000 people. This is down from four divorces in 2000.

On behalf of The McKeon Law Firm posted in Child Custody on Tuesday, May 24, 2016.

Mothers are granted parental rights when they give birth. Fathers can establish paternity (parental rights) in a number of the ways. The easiest method is by being married to the mother at the time of the birth or signing a document that affirmatively established fatherhood. But what can unmarried fathers do who were not present at the birth and did not establish paternity? Do they have any visitation or custody rights? This post will go over how they can establish those rights.

On behalf of The McKeon Law Firm posted in Child Custody on Tuesday, May 17, 2016.

There are numerous DNA tests out there. However, accuracy and invasiveness are always concerns. Fathers and children can give blood samples, but it can be a traumatic experience. Some companies, to overcome these issues, designed a noninvasive prenatal test to allow for easy and accurate DNA testing. A published study tested those claims and this post will go over their findings.

It's true that every marriage is unique and deals with unique expressions of problems, but marriages are made up of humans who tend to make the same type of mistakes. Humans are only a few thousand years removed from nonverbal communication. Therefore, facial expressions, body language and tone are still very important parts of the communication toolbox. These experts go over how you can pay attention to these nonverbal cues.

On behalf of The McKeon Law Firm posted in Child Support on Tuesday, April 19, 2016.

Parents are linked to each other forever through their children. This means that fights you had when you were together can still come up even though you are no longer romantically involved. For instance, money can still be a major source of contention and many people fight over child support.

Let's imagine, for example, you receive $400 a month in support and the other parent claims that you are wasting that money on things for yourself. You might feel pressured to somehow justify your spending or hand over receipts to prove how you are handling support, but before you do this, you should know that unless a court has ordered you to do so, you have no obligation to provide any accounting for how child support is spent.

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